Sean could probably confirm, but I believe Apache policy requires that discussions/decisions happen on the dev list. So, IRC/Slack is probably fine for user requests, but project direction happens in mailing list. Then there's the question of searchable archives. Are IRC/Slack channels archived so users 3 months later can find the answer that someone else posted? Again, Apache has policies that dictate this as well.
I'm not saying don't do it. I'm asking what your objective is. On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Apekshit Sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > So slack has these cool features: code snippet support, file transfers, > personal history (see what you missed), plugins support (for jenkins, etc). > But we advertise in hbase book that we have an irc channel ( > http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#trouble.resources.irc, > http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#irc). > Which should we choose going forward? > > The main goal is to hangout in a room so that it's easy to ping people for > short discussions/clarifications. > > > On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 8:57 PM, Nick Dimiduk <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm not such a huge slack fan, but I'm also becoming curmudgeonly. Sure, > > why not? If that's where people want to gather. You creating a room? How > to > > make it "official"? > > > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Stack <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 4:05 PM, Apekshit Sharma <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > "Committers should hang out in the #hbase room on irc.freenode.net > for > > > > real-time discussions." > > > > -- HBase Book > > > > > > > > The room has a bunch of people, but none who I recognize. I wonder > what > > > > happened. How a room which I imagine must have had thriving geeky > > > > discussions once, just died. > > > > > > > > Anyways, let's revive the old tradition because it will certainly be > > > useful > > > > to hang out in a room for real-time discussions. We can use the new > > > kickass > > > > service for that, Slack. > > > > > > > > What says the community? > > > > > > > > > > > Or we could just revive the existing channel? > > > St.Ack > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Appy > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Regards > > Apekshit Sharma | Software Engineer, Cloudera | Palo Alto, California | > 650-963-6311 >
